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Egypt unveils nuclear power plan

Egypt is to revive the civilian nuclear power programme it froze 20 years ago following the accident at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.

Egypt's energy minister told the state-owned al-Ahram newspaper of plans to build a nuclear power station.

The plant will be constructed at El-Dabaa, on the Mediterranean coast, within the next 10 years.

Demand for electricity has been growing at an average rate of 7% a year and the country faces worsening shortages.

On Thursday, President Hosni Mubarak said Egypt needed to investigate new sources of energy, including the nuclear option.

Energy Minister Hassan Younes said that the project would create a fully functioning nuclear power plant within a decade.

The facility, a 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plant, is expected to cost an estimated US$1.5bn (1.17bn euros). The Cairo government says it will seek foreign investment for the project.

IAEA questions

Though it abandoned a serious nuclear energy programme two decades ago, Egypt maintains a small experimental nuclear reactor.

In February 2005 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed that it was investigating Egypt's nuclear activities.

It concluded that Egypt had conducted atomic research, but that the research did not aim to develop nuclear weapons and did not include uranium enrichment.

Egypt admitted to failing to disclose the full extent of its nuclear research activities to the UN's watchdog. Officials said the failure arose because of a misunderstanding over exactly what had to be disclosed.

NPT signatory

Egypt is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which allows countries to build nuclear power stations under international supervision.

It has long pressed for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

Israel is the only state in the region with a known nuclear arsenal, though it maintains a position of "ambiguity" on its nuclear weapons, insisting that it will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

Iran is in dispute with the IAEA and the Security Council over its nuclear programme.

Tehran insists its programme is peaceful, but western states believe Iran secretly wants to develop either a nuclear bomb or the ability to make one. The Security Council is demanding that Tehran halt nuclear enrichment, a step Iran is refusing to comply with.
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Dabaa nuclear power sit-in continues in wake of clashes

Sat, 14/01/2012 - 10:40

Residents of Dabaa, where Egypt’s nuclear power project is under construction, continued their sit-in on Saturday after clashes with Egyptian military police on Friday.

The clashes left 41 people injured, including 29 soldiers, according to state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.

On Friday, about 500 residents had rallied demanding the dismantlement of the nuclear power plant, saying their lands were confiscated to make room for it. They say the government did not give them compensation for the land.

Taha Mohamed Al-Sayed, governor of Matrouh, had held an urgent meeting with protestors' representatives, calling on them to exercise self-restraint.

The governor was quoted by MENA as telling the protestors that the army will not attack them. Al-Sayed ordered police to secure the plant's gates.

Egypt's electricity minister said in March that the country would go ahead with the tender for the plant's construction after the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Soldiers and protesters hurled stones at each other and exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding the site, a security source and witnesses said.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
 
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#4 ·
Sure.

ثلاثة عشر خبيرًا نوويًا يستعدون للسفر لكوريا للتدريب على دورة وقود وتشغيل المحطات

14-1-2012 | 13:59

تستعد البعثة الثانية من كوادر الأمان النووى المصرى للسفر إلي العاصمة الكورية (سول ) فى زيارة تستغرق أسبوعين اعتبارا من 29 من الشهر الجارى وذلك في إطار التعاون الفني بين مركز الأمان النووي المصري،وهيئة الرقابة النووية فى كوريا الجنوبية.

وكشف مصدر مسئول بوزارة الكهرباء أن الوفد المصري يضم 13 خبيرا للتدريب لمده 15 يوما في كوريا علي عده مجالات تتعلق بالمحطات النووية، وتشمل التدريب علي وتصميم المفاعلات النووية وجودة المحطات إلى جانب التدريب على تركيب وتشغيل أبراج التبريد فى المحطات ودوره الوقود وصيانة وتشغيل المحطات النووية
كما سيقوم الوفد المصرى بزيارات ميدانية لعدد من المحطات النووية الكورية لافتا النظر إلي أن هذه الزيارة تأتي في إطار بروتوكول التعاون بين الأمان النووي المصري وهيئة التعاون الدولي الكورية.

وكانت الدفعة الأولى من كوادر الأمان النووى المصرى قد انهت برنامجها التدريبى فى كوريا نهاية نوفبرالماضى وضمت 12 خبيرا نوويا حيث تم التدريب لمد 15 يوما على المواقع النووية للمحطات وتأكيد جودة إنشائها إلي جانب التدريب علي مجالات الضمانات والحماية المادية للمحطات النووية.​

Source: الأهرام
 
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Ya what they meant by the construction work is the buildings not the actual plant. Like the science lab and administration offices and so on.

Btw this is not only a nuclear facility to generate electricity to my knowledge they will use it to generate electricity and purify the sea water.
 
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Okay, because if you look at the first article I posted it says:

Residents of Dabaa, where Egypt’s nuclear power project is under construction
Al-Sayed ordered police to secure the plant's gates.
That indicates that the plant is under construction and that the building has gates already. :p
 
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Yea they mean the construction of the buildings. We can't build the actual plant ourselves that's why we're seeking international help.

Anyways the tenders to choose the international counter part is going to be passed in the parliament to be reviewed and then it will be placed in an international competition companies from different countries will off us different deals and different prices and we're going to choose one THEN we start construction of the actual plant and that takes about 10years before its operational.

But for el dabaa case, I think they want local engineers and scientists learn so that in the future we're going to build it and design it ourselves.

Anyways Azmat do you mind if we change the title? The project is going to be completed by 2025 and will be 4,000MW the cost is $4billion. You're not wrong the first plant will be operational by 2019 but the project is more than one plant in el dabaa site it's a bigger project. Also the project is not on hold these are delays so the project is going on. Either prep or u/c or approved.
 
#10 ·
Yea, you still have safety issues in the plant can we deal with them alone? Also I mean the reactor and the cooling towers :)

You miss understood me. The El Dabaa project consist of them all. Its like Cairo Metro phase one two and three ;)

Ahh I have info about them hence I gave you some.
 
#12 ·
That's 8 plants planned. Two of them are in el dabaa.

Anyways the first session of the parliament is like next week. Do you think we would reject the proposal?
 
#14 ·
No the plant is approved and the money has been allocated what I'm saying is that the parliment has to approve the specifications and other things we're going to choose the international investor based on.

Also the parliment will be working on solving the problem of these protestors.
 
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Manufacturing the panels, they use chemicals you know. Also when the life span of a panel ends and then they throw it away that may cause damaged to the environment as chemicals are released from the panels. I'm not too sure but I think that what it is.

Also the cos they both cost pretty much the same. Solar energy take large areas and nuclear not. We can use both together though.
 
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Radioactive material said stolen from Egyptian plant

(Reuters) - Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt's Mediterranean coast that was the scene of violent protests last week, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.

A safe containing radioactive material at the Dabaa nuclear power plant, which is still under construction, was seized while another also containing radioactive material was broken open and part of its contents taken, the newspaper said.

In Vienna, an official of the U.N. nuclear agency described the items missing as "low-level radioactive sources" which had been taken from a laboratory at the construction site. He could not give any details on the nature of the stolen items.

"We are in touch with the Egyptian authorities," the official from the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

Al-Ahram said the government has alerted security authorities and asked that specialized teams help in the search for the stolen material.

More than a dozen people were wounded last week when military police tried to disperse hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding the relocation of the Dabaa plant.

Plant staff have refused to go to the site because of the deterioration in the security situation there, al-Ahram said.

About 500 Egyptians rallied in front of the plant last week to demand that the project be terminated, with some saying they had lost their land on the site.

Soldiers and the demonstrators threw stones at each other and exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding the site, a security source and witnesses said.

(Reporting by Patrick Werr; additional reporting by Fredrik Dahl in Vienna; editing by David Stamp)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-egypt-radioactive-idUSTRE80I1SW20120119

If you can't secure the plant, close it and don't make it!
 
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Nuclear power authority warns against encroachment on Dabaa site​
The Nuclear Power Plants Authority warned against partaking in any legal or financial actions concerning any part of its Dabaa city site in Matrouh Governorate.

In a statement Monday, the authority warned all citizens against encroaching on the site, saying it would make them liable under state property protection laws and the Penal Code.

The Dabaa site was allocated for the establishment of electricity-generating nuclear power plants as per Presidential Decree 309/1981, according to the statement.

No person or entity may use or build on the land without the authority’s consent, and any such actions will be considered encroachment on public property, the authority said.

The authority said compensation had been disbursed for 323 buildings, or 94 percent of total compensations.

Meanwhile, the Electricity Ministry sent a detailed report on the Dabaa nuclear project to presidential staff; the report will later be presented to President Mohamed Morsy.​

I really hope they solve the dispute quickly, also we're still waiting for Morsi's go ahead :|
 
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Dabaa nuclear project awaits Parliament​
An Egyptian official said that Egypt’s nuclear project is ready to be implemented but is waiting until the next parliamentary elections.

A source at the Ministry of Electricity told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the Egyptian nuclear project would be launched soon as a national project. It said that the project would be a major breakthrough, especially in the production of the electricity needed for any upcoming development project.

The project, however, would have to wait for the new House of Representatives to convene, since it is the entity authorized to approve such projects.

Former Electricity Minister Mahmoud Balbaa said the ministry is “ready and waiting” for a political decision to launch the international tender for the construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant.

Residents of Dabaa, where the project is due to be constructed, have continually protested against the project.

“The problem lies in the lack of the people’s confidence in the government in general,” the source said. The land has been held from residents for years without being used for the public interest, as they originally were told.

In his opinion, granting the residents appropriate and fair compensation and explaining the benefits of the project to them would be enough to get their blessing.​

What do you reckon the decision could be?
 
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^^ good point!

Anyways I don't know where to put this, so here it is?

Egypt discovers large amounts of uranium
The Nuclear Materials Authority announced the discovery of huge amounts of uranium ore, giving a glimpse of hope for improving the country’s collapsing economy.

But while uranium extraction is expected to help develop many national industries, there are concerns about its environmental and health dangers.

Mohsen Ali Mohamadeen, head of the Nuclear Materials Authority, says the uranium was discovered in high concentrations in five main areas, included Abu Zenima in Sinai, Abu Rashid on the Red Sea, Sila in Upper Egypt, and the Gtar area, which is located 70 kilometers away from Hurghada.

“Because uranium is considered an important strategic raw material, the plan is to use it mainly as fuel for energy production,” Mohamadeen explains.

He says 14 other valuable, rare and expensive elements were found in the Abu Rashid area, including cerium, terbium and neodymium, adding that they can be used for manufacturing aircraft, medical equipment and electronics, which could help the economy “significantly.”

Mohamadeen explains that the authority first sent its planes to scan these different places and measure radiation, then organized geological trips to explore them and analyze soil samples.

However, he asserts that the researchers of the authority encountered some serious problems and difficulties. He says the team is asking the governorate to provide them with specialized mineralization centers that can provide researchers in difficult to reach areas, such as mountains, with the necessary car maintenance and camping services, as well as the necessary scientific equipment.

Mohamadeen doesn’t want people to worry about the environmental and health concerns of uranium.

“Everything has its advantages and inconveniences. Uranium is a radioactive material, but by following preventive procedures, such as using it under a shield of lead, it becomes completely safe,” he says.

The team intends to tender a bid to international companies, they say, because they need foreign expertise for the complex processes of excavating and extracting uranium.

Mohamadeen says it is very important to guarantee that Egypt will be able to make use of all uranium extracted by any of these companies. He says Niger, considered one of the leading countries in extracting uranium and other metals, sent a delegation to Egypt.

“In my opinion, it’s very important to have a cooperative program for exchanging experiences through mutual delegations between the different countries,” he says.​


Good stuff :cheers: btw Niger can extract Uranuim while we can't? Ya fede7tek ya masr!
 
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